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The Dutch government has released a report that
details the alliance between the United States and the Islamic effort to
help Bosnian Muslims. The report determined that the United States
provided a green light to groups on the State Department list of terrorist
organizations to operate in Bosnia. This included the Lebanese-based
Hezbollah. For the European Union, the U.S. effort marks a stain that
calls into question Washington's war on terrorism.

For nearly a decade, the Clinton administration helped Islamic
insurgents aligned with Chechnya, Iran and Saudi Arabia destabilize the
former Yugoslavia. The insurgents were allowed to bring weapons and
explosives to Bosnia-Herzegovina and fight Serbs and their allies. The
insurgents also were allowed to move further east to Kosovo.

The United States was helped by a range of Muslim countries – from Iran
and Saudi Arabia to Turkey. In short, the Clinton administration thought
that the stronger the Muslims in Bosnia, the weaker the Serbian hold over
Yugoslavia.

Today, there are tens of thousands of Islamic insurgents throughout
such countries as Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo, and many of them are moving
west to Austria, Hungary, Germany and Switzerland.

The U.S. Defense Department, which helped run the Islamic weapons
smuggling operation in Bosnia, now faces a huge blowback problem as many
Hezbollah operatives have moved to greener pastures in Western Europe.
Over the last decade, Islamic extremism has increased its strength in such
countries as Britain, France, Germany and Sweden to the point where their
foreign policy is hampered.

The Islamic blowback is believed to be vast. These days, Bosnia – under
heavy Iranian influence – is regarded as too dangerous for senior U.S.
officials to visit. Both Bosnia and Kosovo also serve as launching pads
for terrorist attacks both in the West and in the Middle East.

More than a few European countries, consequently, have turned their
nose up at the Bush administration's appeal to take Islamic terrorism
seriously.